I Quotes
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“In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.”
“In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.”
“In any racing engine, the nearer you are to it disintegrating, the better it's performance will be”
“In any random slaughter, the difference between living and dying rarely has anything to do with willpower, or wisdom, or pluck. It's just a matter of where you're standing. Two inches to the right, and the bus hits you. If your office is on the ninety-second floor instead of the ninetieth, you don't make it out in time.”
“In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.”
Source: The Writing of Fiction
“In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.”
“In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.”
Source: Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
“In any relationship it's not that you will never get upset or there won't be any fights. No relationship can skip such difficult moments or that state of negativity. It is necessary to quickly start working on the solution. (From Ramesh Sood's Relashhuns to Relashines - an amazon book)”
“In any relationship that comes to an end, there's never just a baseline reason why. You say, 'Oh, I broke up with my girlfriend.' Someone says, 'Why?' You say, 'Well, you got three hours? And then maybe after I tell you my version, you've got to talk to her.”
“In any relationship, the best option is to trust someone who loves you, not someone you love.”
“In any relationship there are certain doors that should never be opened. The bathroom door, for example.”
“In any relationship, there is this moment when a person who was a part of you just an instant ago becomes a surrealistically familiar stranger. After that moment, inertia and denial can only delay the inevitable.”
“In any relationship, there will be frightening spells in which your feelings of love dry up. And when that happens you must remember that the essence of marriage is that it is a covenant, a commitment, a promise of future love. So what do you do? You do the acts of love, despite your lack of feeling. You may not feel tender, sympathetic, and eager to please, but in your actions you must BE tender, understanding, forgiving and helpful. And, if you do that, as time goes on you will not only get through the dry spells, but they will become less frequent and deep, and you will become more constant in your feelings. This is what can happen if you decide to love.”
Source: The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
“In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interests; for them, we in a strange sense wish to, and do, start life anew.”
“In any relationship, especially marriage, be as free of compulsive thinking as possible. In other words, the more space there is in the relationship - inner space - the more love there is because love arises out of the inner spaciousness.”
“In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know.”
“In any religion, it is the priest who is likely to ask the most pertinent questions; and if there are flaws in the religious structure, it is the priest, being closest to it and most learned in it, who is most likely to discover them.”
Source: The Mourner
“In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.”
“In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.”
“In any serious relationship, if you don't gather your partner's opinion before making a decision that impacts you both, you're just storing up trouble for the future.”
Source: The Christmas Singing
“In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.”
Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by
“In any show with a character that you really love, one inclination is to cure them of all their flaws but you remember that you like those flaws.”
“In any situation, acceptance is always the first step to inner peace. And if you can't fix what you wish to fix, then acceptance is the only step, the only way to be happy despite the circumstances.”
“In any situation, I ask “What can I do for myself”.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“In any situation, I choice to keep my peace.”
“In any situation in life, you only have three options. You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It's that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.”
“In any situation, listen and follow the first instinct, the sacred inner voice.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“In any situation, speak words of faith.”
“In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce.”
“In any situation, there is a sacred-solution.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“In any situation, there is hope.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“In any situation, we can use our agency to define our purpose and seek meaning.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III - Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World
“In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.”
“In any situation, I'm going to be good.”
“In any situation, location is crucial.”
“In any social revolution there are times when the tail winds of triumph and fulfillment favor us, and other times when strong head winds of disappointment and setbacks beat against us relentlessly. We must not permit adverse winds to overwhelm us as we journey across life’s mighty Atlantic; we must be sustained by our engines of courage in spite of the winds. This refusal to be stopped, this “courage to be,” this determination to go on “in spite of” is the hallmark of any great movement.”
Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
“In any socialist government, they must destroy all alliances other than your alliance to the government, and they want the government to become your God. That for you to totally depend upon government. So we become slaves to government, through taxation, through regulation, through all kinds of restrictions, that makes us not free anymore.”
“In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent.”
Source: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance for a small minority. But this does not mean that anyone is competent, or ought to have power, to select those to whom this freedom is to be reserved.”
“In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.”
“In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure. But the libertarians give primacy to an abstract liberty. Conservatives, knowing that "liberty inheres in some sensible object," are aware that true freedom can be found only within the framework of a social order, such as the constitutional order of these United States. In exalting an absolute and indefinable "liberty" at the expense of order, the libertarians imperil the very freedoms they praise.”
Source: Redeeming the Time
“In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.”
“In any society, the way a woman gives birth and the kind of care given to her and the baby points as sharply as an arrowhead to the key values of the culture.”
Source: Women as mothers
“In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.”
“In any sphere of our life, if we learn to combine our prayers with actions, we will have victory”
“In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.”
“In any spiritual undertaking, God's first order of business is to see to the spiritual health of His people.”
“In any story the two hardest things to be are a widow or an orphan. Those are the bad cards to draw from the deck marked "life."
Because those are the two moments the people you love the most die. It's heart break. Heart shatter. Heart starve.
It's so much loss that it's easier if you just died and started the game over. But you can't. You have to wander. Part of it is losing your tribe and being homeless. Part of it is being alone in the dark.
I won't lie to you. The deck marked "life" is stacked full of bum cards.”
Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue
“In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.”
“In any struggle, the battles of life are fought and won in our minds.”